Riikka Honkanen

Finnland

RIIKKA: THE RARE DIAMOND FROM NURMIJÄRVI IN THE REDSTER LINE UP

That’s what you call flexibility. Riikka practised no less than eight types of sport in her childhood and teenage years. Among them weight-lifting, dancing and orienteering. But then she stayed with Alpine sports – despit her home town of Nurmijärvi being far away from the large Finnish ski resorts.